I remember seeing a thread like this, but couldn't find it by searching. Can the person please say how to do it again? [like loading galeon and openoffice specifially]

Hi,

I don't know about the other thread, but what you have to do is to make the kernel read the program's binaries from disk. So if the program is located in $PROG_DIR, you can do "cat $PROG_DIR?* > /dev/null" or something like that. Then the files will be read from disk and discarded but still be buffered in memory. I'm not sure what the directories are. For openoffice it is probably /usr/lib/openoffice/program/. No idea about galeon.

To make this execute every time you boot, you can put the command in /etc/rc.local IIRC.

Arvind

Sorry I meant write "cat $PROG_DIR/* > /dev/null"

Arvind

so in rc.local (what is IIRC?) I put cat $PROG_DIR/usr/lib/openoffice/program > /dev/null ?
Do I need to specify the actuall load file or does the prog_dir just run what is in the directory, which is in this case Open office? (for me it is /usr/lib/openoffice/program. Galeon is /usr/lib/galeon/components. Is that it or do I need to find another area that a galeon folder is located? Thanks.

I can see that this should work, but I doubt
that the advantage of "caching" let's say
350MB in the case of OpenOffice would
do a lot for the time before the user can
actually use it :} (specifically if the PC
has less than 350 (+Kernel memory
+X memory + DE memory) MB of RAM ;}) ...



Cheers,
Tink

I have 512 mbs of ram...